Amanda Jane Textiles

A six-year-old textile designer

I loved hearing about this design story. During the school summer holidays this year, six-year-old Maria became a designer. Maria has happy memories of seeing real pandas when she was younger and she is very fond of her panda toy, so this dictated the subject for her design work. Maria was inspired by ‘The PineappleContinueContinue reading “A six-year-old textile designer”

A quilt from table-cloths

Forget-me-not quilt pattern by Amanda Jane Textiles

Many moons ago, when I began to write this blog, I created a post called ‘Embroidered Vintage table-cloths, what’s not to like?’ (you can see it here). The photo showed a beautiful cloth which I inherited and tried to use, decoratively, in our house. It had the most beautiful collection of hand-embroidered flowers all differentContinueContinue reading “A quilt from table-cloths”